US Patent Issued to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS on May 26 for "ALF APSs for multilayer coding and decoding" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,259, issued on May 26, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).

"ALF APSs for multilayer coding and decoding" was invented by Fabrice Urban (Thorigne Fouillard, France), Philippe De Lagrange (Betton, France), Philippe Bordes (Laille, France) and Franck Hiron (Chateaubourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restricted syntax range per layer in a multi-layer video coding scheme prevents inter-layer conflicts. In one embodiment, adaptive loop filtering sets defined in an adaptive parameter set are distinct in the multiple layers. In another embodiment, a layer identification is also used to uniquely identify the...